Senior Architect - Policy as Code

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.

We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Position Summary:
Stands up and runs the Policy-as-Code CoE day to day. Manages the review and approval workflow for resource-owner policy contributions, handles exceptions, and coordinates with GIS on the InfoSec boundary. Owns standards and procedures documentation long term and serves as the internal technical-governance authority ensuring consistent, reusable guardrails and audit traceability.​

Key Responsibilities:

• Operate the review and approval workflow for resource-owner policy contributions, handle exceptions, and author the standards, procedures, and audit-defensible evidence that keep the Policy-as-Code framework consistent and traceable.

Required Qualifications:

Experience with the following:

• Security & compliance architecture — designing control frameworks and governance guardrails in an enterprise environment.  
• Hands-on Policy-as-Code / OPA — authoring and reviewing Rego-based policies and guardrail libraries.  
• Terraform / IaC fluency — understanding how guardrails enforce against infrastructure delivered through IaC.  
• Standards & procedures authorship — maintaining audit-defensible documentation, testing evidence, and release governance.
• 10+ years experience as a technical architect or similar role

Desired Qualifications:

• Cloud security certifications (CISSP, CCSP, or equivalent).
• Experience across private + public cloud control reconciliation. 
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and the CGA Observability Dashboard integration. 
• Regulated-industry (banking) audit/regulatory exam exposure.
• Enterprise Architecture / Networking / Storage domain-policy translation experience​

Job Description:
This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution that supports the strategic outcomes of the Business' Products and Services. Key responsibilities include defining the target operating environment, designing for client resiliency, assisting with solution design, and defining non-functional requirements. Job expectations include working with stakeholders and service providers aligned to the Business' strategic objectives, evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions, and contributing to the architecture roadmap.

Responsibilities:

• Works across the business, operations and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision for complex solutions and prioritize functional and non-functional requirements into a technology backlog to enable the technology roadmap and functionality to support evolving capabilities and services
• Contributes to the creation of the architecture roadmap of defined domains (Business, Application, Data, and Technology) in support of the product roadmap and the development of best practices including standardized templates
• Clarifies the architecture, assists with system design to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments
• Facilitates solution driven discussions, leads the design of complex architectures, and finds creative solutions through knowledge of domain, practical experiments, and proof of concepts while ensuring architecture is flexible, modular, and adaptable
• Educates team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies, and best practices to create innovative solutions
• Supports the team as needed to select the technology stack required for solutions and helps select preferred technology products
• Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements are sufficiently met (for example, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability)

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• DevOps Practices
• Risk Management
• Agile Practices
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Delivery Process
• Test Engineering

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40